Dr Stephen Atherton
BA (Hons) Geography & Education, MA, PhD (Aberystwyth), PGCTHE (Aberystwyth), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
- Email: sta@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-4651-9695
- Office: 2.34, Penbryn Building 5
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628601
- Twitter: @aberste
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Stephen received a 1st class degree BA (Hons) in Geography and Education, and was awarded funding by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for an MA (passed with distinction) and Doctorate (awarded in 2011), all at Aberystwyth University. Stephen was awarded a PGCTHE in 2012 and is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- AD33640 - Traethawd Hir
- AD33600 - Traethawd Hir
- ED21100 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
- ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
- ED33600 - Major dissertation
- ED21140 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
- EDM3260 - Dissertation
- ADM3260 - Traethawd Hir
Tutor
- AD33600 - Traethawd Hir
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- ED30320 - Mathematical Development in the Early Years
- ED33600 - Major dissertation
- AD33640 - Traethawd Hir
- AD30120 - Gwerthuso ac Adlewyrchu ar Sgiliau Dysgu yn Gritigol
- ED14420 - Partnerships in Principle and Practice
- ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
- ED13820 - The Learner and the Learning Environment
Lecturer
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- ED14420 - Partnerships in Principle and Practice
- ED24520 - Policies and Perspectives of Learning Difference and Inclusion
- ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
- ED39020 - Offender Learning
- ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
- ED33600 - Major dissertation
- ED29620 - Specialist Subject Learning and Development Level 5
- ED24320 - Safeguarding and Professional Practice
- ED39620 - Specialist Subject Learning and Development Level 6
Coordinator
- ED24520 - Policies and Perspectives of Learning Difference and Inclusion
- ED33600 - Major dissertation
- ED33640 - Major dissertation
- ED21100 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
- ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
- ED21140 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
- ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
- ADM3260 - Traethawd Hir
- EDM3260 - Dissertation
- AD33600 - Traethawd Hir
- AD33640 - Traethawd Hir
Moderator
Grader
Research
Stephen's research has predominantly been in areas of gender and the military from which he has drawn key educational, geographical and sociological themes. His research has particularly focused on areas such as home and the family, emotions and memory, children's access to education and services, and adult education and training. Throughout these themes Stephen has engaged with a critical analysis of the social construction of gender, with specific emphasis on how masculinities are performed from a cultural repertoire of identities that are temporally and spatially contingent.
Stephens research is now developing into a number of strands, including;
- The productions and performances of gendered identities in young children
- Technology and pedagogy
- Skills development in Higher Education
- Adult Education and training
- Children in Army families.